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"Backgammon" in other languages

Posted By: Rick Janowski
Date: Monday, 29 July 2013, at 4:20 p.m.

In Response To: "Backgammon" in other languages (David Presser)

The derivation of Shesh Besh is interesting - this mixture of Hebrew and Turkish numbers. Shesh (or similar) for six is also fairly common in some Indo-European languagues (typically the Iranic, Slavic and Baltic families). Also many words for the number 5 are similar to Besh within these families(or more commonly Pesh). I had wondered if originally the name derived from one of the many Iranic languages/dialects and was adapted and modified slightly by the Ottoman Turks who introduced the game and its name to territories within its empire, which of course included Israel/Palestine until the latter part of World War I.

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